Definitions for curd

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Spelling: [kurd]

IPA: /kɜrd/

Curd is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in curd (cdru).

Definitions for curd

noun

1. Often, curds. a substance consisting mainly of casein and the like, obtained from milk by coagulation, and used as food or made into cheese.
2. any substance resembling this.
3. Also called curd cheese. Chiefly Northeastern and Southern U.S. cottage cheese.
4. the edible flower heads of cauliflower, broccoli, and similar plants.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to turn into curd; coagulate; congeal.

Origin of curd

1325-75; Middle English curden (v.), variant of crudden to crud, congeal; see crowd¹

Examples for curd

The butter is the lightest and the curd is the heaviest constituent.

You may make it of milk that is entirely sweet by forming the curd with rennet.

Keep the pan covered till the curd be sufficiently firm to cut, three or four times across with a saucer, as the whey leaves it.

Set it near the fire till the curd comes; fill a vat made in the form of a brick, of wheat straw or rushes sewed together.

It is this film which holds the fat within the pieces of curd.

In their manufacture the cooking of the curd takes a prominent place.

For this reason the curd should be cut into pieces of uniform size.

In 10the formation of this coagulum (curd), the fat is imprisoned and held.

We drew the whey hours ago, and now we are just done putting the curd to press.

When ready to drain, the curd should be firm, smooth and mildly acid.